I have a 16 foot car trailer. The sea can would be strong for taking on and off and it would leave room for some quads. Just thinking.
I have a 16 foot car trailer. The sea can would be strong for taking on and off and it would leave room for some quads. Just thinking.
I'm going to retrofit my shed into a meat cooler when I get my shop done, Its a pretty decent sized shed, 8'x16' with vaulted 10ft ceilings in it, I already have a I beam with a roller chain hoist on it for game. Its got double doors so I can back my tailgate through it and attach the chain hoist and up she goes. Probably won't use the hole shed for a meat cooler because the air compressor for the shop is in there too but I'll partition off a good chunk/
I have a friend in refrigeration and he got me a good used commercial refer unit from a school that was upgrading. The building is 2x4 insulated with R12 but I'm going to line the inside of the building with Steelcraft insulated garage door panels Those panels are R12-R16 depending on thickness, might put a layer of SM Foam panels in first for another R12. R36 should be nice. My other buddy is an installer and I got a boatload of dunnage pannels from him. Once they are installed I'll have a nice insulated metal lined meat cooler.
With those two bulls we killed this year a meat cooler would have come in handy. We had to cut them the day after the kill.
I just gotta finish the shop cause the shed is chocked full of crapola.
-Lightweight gunaholic
-Half of a Human Pinata
-Bear Kung-Fu Master
-Gatherer of the Elk meat
freonguy
I bought one of those cool-bots and a 18000 btu a/c and it works like a charm, i have it in a 10x10 shed with 4" styrofoam walls and 6" floor and ceiling in styrofoam, it can be 35c outside and i can have it down to 3c degrees in 30-40 mins. and when it is in the defrost mode it does not shut down the a/c,it keeps running the fan,you can hear when the compressor kicks in and out,so far its worked flawless.
Trapper:
Glad to hear you had success with a COOLBOT - They must then take the heat off of the thing that that ' tricks ' the compressor to run all the time ( while cooling ) - thus the compressor will cycle and fan stays running .
I guess I am a purist of sorts - like I said, I have seen all kinds of abortions - one guy had a built in unit in his shop ( on the Charlottes ) - the guy he bought the house from said it worked like a charm - it was the guts out of a small ice machine with the plate style evaporator to cool an 8 x 8 room - I don't think so !
Your success has alot to do with the amount of insulation - thanks for the report - hope others can use the info as well.
Freonguy
Any more idea's im going to build one 6 ft long 5 ft wide should hold a 4 quarters fine
KEEP SHOOTING OR SHOOT A BIG GUN!!!!
IF YOU DON'T HUNT YOU AINT RIGHT IN THE HEAD!!!!!!!!!
A SCREAMING ELK THERE'S NOTHIN BETTER!!!!!!
KNOW WHEN TO KEEP THE WIFE OUT OF MY HUNTING SPOTS !!!!!!!!!!